Re: How much RAM can debian support?
Alex Samad wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:14:32PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> Dean Chester put forth on 10/9/2009 3:44 PM:
>> > Hi
>> > I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep
>> > advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just
>> > wondering how much can 64-bit debian support?
>> > Thanks in advance
>> > Dean
>>
>> You've got other constraints to worry about other than theoretical 64
>> bit CPU/OS maximums. Fist is power, second is space. You'll be hard
>> pressed to find a laptop/notebook/whatever that will accept more than
>> 8GB worth of SODIMMs any time soon, from any vendor. In another couple
>> of years you may see laptops supporting up to 16GB as RAM manufacturers
>> move to smaller transistor geometries.
>
> God can you remember when 16M used to be a lot ...............
>
>>
>
My first one, a commedore vic-20, I think I was 8 years old and it was my
first real love...
1MHz CPU I think is was a 6502
5K RAM
/Magnus
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